....and they will be available for $19.99... The crowd which was happily cheering up to this point went quiet as they digested this little nugget. After announcing record profits, market share and general world domination Apple decided to fleece iPod Touch customers for apps that in many people's opinion should have been there in the first place?! Apparently there are accounting standards which mean Apple have to charge for this. Maybe so but I doubt $19.99 was laid down in the accounting guidelines. Also Apple conveniently forgot that the exchange rate at the moment is $2 to the UK pound and charged £12.99 instead of £9.99. Ouch - again! These aren't huge amounts of money but its the principle. In fact I emailed Steve about it because it makes Apple look like money grabbing weasels and we like to believe that they aren't. Still no reply...
Despite all this I bought the apps and they are great in fact so great that I now realise how useful an iPhone could be and when my current phone contract ends the iPhone is top of the list (unless of course Nokia can get their act together). If this had been a free upgrade almost all current iPod Touch owners would probably be thinking the same thing. hmmmmm
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